Vol. 71/No. 22      June 4, 2007

I invite you to join Militant supporters across the United States and other countries in an all-out effort over the next week to make the goals of the paper’s spring subscription drive and fund appeal.

Involving the maximum number of workers and youth who like the paper, we can surpass the 250 subscriptions needed to hit the circulation drive target and collect the remaining $22,000 required to continue printing the paper weekly through early fall.

Many readers have recently noted they need the Militant to get a feel for the multitude of struggles across the United States in which workers are demanding legalization of the undocumented and organizing to defend fellow workers from raids and deportations and protect them from abuse and brutality by the police. Some of what’s in the Militant, like the chart showing the scope and geographic spread of the May Day actions, can’t be found elsewhere. Much of its international coverage—from articles on the reality of Cuba’s socialist revolution to new analysis on China and the imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—is also unique.

To continue, we depend on your generous donations and help in expanding the paper’s new and long-term readership.

By next Wednesday, May 30, the Militant needs to receive more than twice the $10,200 that came in last week— $22,200 to be exact—to make the $100,000 fund drive goal.

Without regular donations from you, the Militant couldn’t send reporters abroad—like the team traveling to Havana this week to cover events around the 160th anniversary of the arrival in Cuba of the first Chinese indentured laborers. We couldn’t maintain the low introductory subscription rates we offer. We couldn’t pay rent, utilities, and other operating costs. Not to speak of the shipping costs, which shot up with the rate increases the U.S. Post Office just instituted.

About 250 more subscriptions are also needed in the last week of the campaign to meet the international goal of 2,400 new readers. Given the response to the paper since May Day, especially among workers, this is within reach.

Renew your sub today, and ask coworkers, fellow students, neighbors, friends, and relatives to sign up too and to kick in some funds! Send in donations now! (See address on page 2.)

Sincerely,
Argiris Malapanis
Editor

Click here to see the subscription drive chart
Click here to see the fund drive chart